Comment:

Like Sufjan Stevens and Joanna Newsom, Bonnie "Prince" Billy — one of several professional names used by Kentucky native Will Oldham — dwells in a corner of American folk that makes a virtue of eclecticism, originality and invention. Any attempt to manoeuvre the artist into a pigeonhole is futile, as you'll discover here, taking us from "Love Comes to Me" on 2006's [i]The Letting Go[/i] — an album named after an Emily Dickinson phrase and cut in Iceland — to the lush "Beware Your Only Friend" and the delicate sadness of "I See a Darkness" (which was covered by Johnny Cash).